Posted on 07/18/2018 8:46:48 AM PDT by fwdude
July 14 (UPI) -- The Episcopal Church removed restrictions on same-sex marriage, a move that allows all couples to wed where they worship, even if their bishop disapproves.
The action came out of discussions at the General Convention, which wrapped up its triennial meeting in Austin, Texas, on Friday.
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Allegedly, individual ministers can bow out for a substitute, but guess how long that will last.
Living in Sodom & Gomorrah. Disgusting.
But the homofascists said it was just about the actions of consenting adults in private, now churches are being overturned everywhere
The Episcopals are a dead church walking.
Given Pope Che, the Catholic Church appears to be following in close trail.
I was raised Episcopalian/Anglican ... this breaks my heart to see what has become my boyhood denomination.
I’d invite people to join the Ordinariate, but one has to wonder if under Pope Francis, the Catholic Church may not be heading down the same primrose path to perdition...
The Episcopal Church went Leftist many years ago and it will never return to what it was. Used to be the most Conservative of the protestant religions, now in a few short years it is the most Hard Left of any.
The Episcopal church stopped being a Christian denomination decades ago.
There is going to be another breakaway. We already have one in Ft. Worth, Texas. The Dallas Bishop isn’t happy about this but so far is indicating he will remain with the national Church. Why can’t they just have their civil unions and stop forcing this crap on the rest of us?
The Constitution of the Episcopal Church was written during the same time frame as the US Constitution, also in Philadelphia a few blocks away from Constitution Hall in Christ Church. It is set up very similar to the US Constitution whereby the federal government has limited authority with most authority residing with the States. The central authority for the church had very little authority. It resided with the 13 dioceses. The Presiding Bishop for the first 100 years remained a diocesan bishop whose main function to call the triennial General Convention into session and preside over the House of Bishops. He was not to be an archbishop. The founders were adamant about that. They wanted little to no power invested in the central authority. And so it should be.
Remember when they “just wanted government out of their bedrooms”?
I feel for my fellow Catholics who keep posting on FR that they will “NEVER leave the True Church Universal”.
The day is coming when Pope Francis crams this identical doctrine down our throats. The Vatican is a dictatorship, and there is no appealing his decrees.
My fellow Catholics who say they will NEVER leave have painted themselves into a corner. If you have principles then certain developments dictate that you MUST leave.
Their Martin Luther moment of epiphany is going to be very difficult for them to swallow.
A whore church of Satan.
Unless they feel as I do that Bergolio is just a usurper and that Benedict XVI is still the true Pope. Then whatever Bergolio says is just so much cow poo. The ones I fault are the Cardinals who let all of this happen without fighting the imposter. But God will sort it out.
ditto.
Aw, they met in Austin. Explains some of their hair brained ideas.
I’m a purple penguin wanting to marry an artichoke. Can I?
Even if you believe that Benedict is the True Pope, Francis has the ball. This is going to lead to a split and a scrum over assets, just as the Episcopalians and Presbyterians have had.
Liberals took over a church built by others, contributed nothing, and ransacked it’s funds and property.
Does anyone know if they went through with taking “Our Father” out of the Prayer Book? They were talking about doing that, too. To be more “inclusive.”
I attended a spirit-filled Episcopal Church for years. When it was announced that the ordination of women and gays was O.K., the priest at that church resigned and left the denomination. Gosh, I loved that guy!
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